As the warmongers of the western world gear up for their meeting to plan NATO’s next round of military action and push countries to spend even more of their money on warfare, I headed to Newport for the week of action taking place in resistance to the summit. Chelsea Manning exposed NATO’s war crimes through documents released to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published them. The NATO leaders ultimately responsible for the crimes detailed in some of these documents walk free, while Chelsea Manning has been locked up for 35 years for telling the truth and Julian Assange remains wanted by the US, with a Grand Jury still investigating four years on. Assange has been trapped in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years because of Britain’s refusal to respect his asylum rights under international law.

As the warmongers of the western world gear up for their meeting to plan NATO’s next round of military action and push countries to spend even more of their money on warfare, I headed to Newport for the week of action taking place in resistance to the summit. Chelsea Manning exposed NATO’s war crimes through documents released to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published them. The NATO leaders ultimately responsible for the crimes detailed in some of these documents walk free, while Chelsea Manning has been locked up for 35 years for telling the truth and Julian Assange remains wanted by the US, with a Grand Jury still investigating four years on. Assange has been trapped in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years because of Britain’s refusal to respect his asylum rights under international law.